Application of ATCA in trigger and DAQ system for experimental physics

Author

Xu, Hao ; Wang, Qiang ; Li, Lu ; Jin, Dapeng ; Liu, Zhen´An ; Lang, Johannes ; Lange, Soeren ; Liu, Ming ; Kuehn, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Inst. of High Energy Phys., Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing, China

fYear

2009

fDate

10-15 May 2009

Firstpage

571

Lastpage

573

Abstract

An ATCA-based trigger and data acquisition and trigger applications for particle physics experiments has been developed. Each compute node features 5 Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA chips and up to 10 GBytes DDR2 memory. High bandwidth connectivity is provided by 8 additional optical links using RocketIO ports and 5 Gbit Ethernet links to receive data from front-end electronics and transmit the data passed trigger to mass storage. A single ATCA crate can host up to 14 boards which are interconnected via a full mesh backplane. A prototype has been set up and some characters have been tested.

Keywords

DRAM chips; data acquisition; field programmable gate arrays; local area networks; physics computing; trigger circuits; ATCA-based trigger system; DAQ system; DDR2 memory; Ethernet link; RocketIO port; Xilinx Virtex-4 FX60 FPGA chip; data acquisition; front-end electronics; high bandwidth connectivity; optical link; particle physics experiment; Backplanes; Bandwidth; Data acquisition; Detectors; Ethernet networks; Field programmable gate arrays; Multiaccess communication; Optical fiber communication; Physics; Transceivers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Real Time Conference, 2009. RT '09. 16th IEEE-NPSS

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4454-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RTC.2009.5321411

Filename

5321411